Diving Langkawi.. (20-23 May 2011)

wednesday (18th may 2011)

... wee hours in the morning on bbm

"penat lah.. jumaat terus masuk langkawi"
"langkawi? utk apa?"
"ada coz"
"apa kata kita tukar tempat.. i pegi langkawi, u rest?"
"u nk ikut?"
"boleh ke?"
"i tak kisah.. jab i tanya jab. confirm bila"

.... that afternoon i bought my tickets to Langkawi. hahaha

i had the chat with a fellow diver from Northern Divers. he invited me to join him and a few more teaching a group of kids from local universities diving. it was a last minute decision. i didn't even bring my dive equipment. only my rashguard, a few bikinis and also my pointer. hehe :) Fuad told me not to. good call too.. the visibility was soo bad. hahaha :) i think i only had 30 minutes of diving in total. :P

I arrived on Friday night. That afternoon I started packing. Then I received a call from Zaide. He was in town with Ismail and thought we should meet up for tea or something. I said yes forgetting I had a flight to catch. :p boleh gitu? I was nervous. I've never met any of the ND members before, except Uncle, and even Uncle I didn't really meet.. I saw him from afar. Does that count? tak kisah la.. so it's natural to be nervous. What if they hate me? What if nobody picks me up at the airport? haha... I didn't even bother to call and make hotel reservations.. adoi..

At about 6 pm I met up with Zaide and Mail.. had early dinner at Mr. Kebab and Briyani. again forgetting I had a FLIGHT TO CATCH! then i saw the time. It's already 7:10 pm! We left the restaurant.. bid goodbyes and I headed to Putrajaya Sentral. I arrived right on 7:20pm.. only to have to queue for tickets and the ticket attendant was soooo damn slow I thought of a million ways to torture her for making me miss my train. yupp.. i missed the train :( I called frantically for a cab. only to find out they can only come in half an hour. yikes.. tawakkal.. i prayed soo hard.. and started regretting some of the bad and naughty things i've done the past week.. ermm... i got on the 7:50 pm train. and arrived at 8:20 pm. i dashed to the ticket counter.. only there aren't anymore ticket counters.. they no longer have ticket counters for Langkawi! only kiosks.. and they've closed check ins exactly an hour before the flight.. my flight was at 9:15pm.. oh no! i ran to the service counter.. alhamdulillah... they said i can still check in! i felt like giving the Air Asia ground personnel a big hug.. hehehe...

i sent a bbm message to Fuad.. and he said he'll pick me up at the airport.

i texted Zaide and told him I managed to check in. heheh :) happy again :D

I arrived right on time despite the delayed departure. gila babi laju flight tu... hahaha sabor je la... tak sempat nak lelap pun. 

when i arrived Langkawi, I realized.. I didn't have Fuad's no. I also had no idea who are the other ND members that were in Langkawi.. mm.. idiot! again I prayed. Please please please pick me up at the airport. I waited a good 10 minutes before they arrived. That's the first time I met Fuad and Mulu of ND.  Fuad and I dropped Mulu and his friends off at the cinema and left for the hotel.. more like a roach motel. :( more bad news. Fuad is clueless without his GPS. lucky for the signboards. :p

I checked in at Regent Hotel. OMG... for RM50 a night it's not a bad deal la.. there were two double beds.. hot shower and aircond. they have towels but ermm.. i'd rather use my own lah. i took a quick shower while Fuad waited outside. The night has just begun baby.. :p hahaha nothing kinky... we just had to go and fill the tanks and meet up with the others: tuan Lan, tuan Lah, and Nizam. Tuan Lah is the instructor (NAUI) and tuan Lan is the DM. Nizam is an OWD, helping out with the course. They have 16 students so they need all the help they can get. After filling the tanks, we went to have a drink... waiting for Mulu to finish with his movie. Fuad just came back from Umrah, so the conversation was more about his trip. it's amazing.. i can't wait to go one day insya Allah..

testing my camera and strobes. yupp they're ok ;) 

Early morning.. I text Fuad.. "what time are you coming?" lo and behold he's outside the room! and i wasn't even ready yet! alamak! panic! hahaahaha dah la first time jumpa diorang. lambat lak tu :p benci tau!

brought my uw camera along.. hoping to capture the underwater scenes in langkawi.. perghh.. we left the hotel in a hurry. he waited for me to siap2.. luckily i already showered when he arrived. then he said.. you ni slow la.. huhuhu... sabar je :(

we had breakfast at this warung on the way to Tanjung Rhu.. yupp.. that's where they had their course. Tanjung Rhu. i remembered Tanjung Rhu. I was there with my girls a few years back.. there were sooo many horse dung.. i thought of changing the name to Tanjung Dung.. hmm... as i was still a bit sleepy i had a light breakfast. roti canai. kekee :D

we reached tanjung Rhu.. and i thought we were late.. no lah.. the students arrived later.. and they haven't even had their breakfast yet.. pheww.. :)

i changed in the car. by the roadside. that's a first! no dive center.. we brought our own tanks.. haha.. ok now i can envisioned how the MUW guys went diving in PD a few years back.. huhu... cool gileee... :) the students were supposed to do their swimming/snorkeling exercise for their owd certificate.. i was taking photos of the students underwater... using Fuad's camera.. i always wanted to try Olympus camera.. it's kinda cool. makes me regret not taking xz-1 even more :( aduhaiii... kenapa lahh...

we were laughing at the students... then suddenly... "tu tenggelam tu!" omigod....that's a first! and it wasn't even deep.. penat kot.. and all 4 of them, tuan lan, tuan lah, fuad and also Mulu, went straight to the girl. suddenly, nizam came out of nowhere.. and threw the life buoy... and it hit both tuan lan and the victim. hahahaa.. i almost died of laughter.. kelakor.. ok.. it wasn't supposed to be funny.. sorry.. but i just cracked.. :P

the girl was safe.. and she continued her certification exercises.. hehe :)

then they proceeded with the mask removal, mask clearing and also buddy breathing exercise while i waited at the beach ... interviewing the students.. we had quite a nice chat.. those kids were cool.. felt like talking to Man and Ica. hahah :P

Fuad completed with his students early.. so i got to use his gears and dived for 15 minutes with Nizam... we saw a cute crab trying to attack me.. hahaha.. reminded me of the ketam at redang.. damn.. hahaha it's so small! probably about 3 inch wide je kot. huhu... then it got boring.. so i suggested to Nizam that we ended the dive.. we had lunch by the road side.. and rested while waiting for the afternoon exercise..

in the afternoon, the students were taken to the jetty, where they had to do giant stride and back roll entry. they even had to get out of the water without tangga.. damn.. i'd die if i were in this course ... kekekee...

that night.. we were invited to a steamboat dinner at the hotel lang.. i think it's a ceremony for the previous students... where they get their cards.. we cramped into one car.. luckily it's a nazaria.. mm... i felt sexually harassed. but biasa lah kan? kekeke.. i was tired and sunburnt.. couldn't really think properly..

i'm sooooo red!

after dinner, some of us had foot massage. i passed as i already had my body massage the day before huhu :P so the rest of us had a drink at a nearby cafe. we even had roadside burger.. what? it smelled nice.. and i only had half! 

the next day i was determined to dive.. but i woke up late. mm.. again. we rushed to the warung where we had breakfast the day before.. and i just had to try the nasi lemak.. hahahah and also the goat milk.. lama tak minum HiGoat :p 

when we arrived the students were there.. having breakfast. pheww.. nasib baik lagi. after they were done, they had to assemble their equipment as fast as they could, and they were timed! heck.. i don't remember this one! ada ke? tak de kot. kalau ada aku dah fail kot hahahahah :p 

the owd students

anyway, i only brought my camera and also my bb with me on the boat. and there i saw him. hello boatman.. he's so cute! zamri nama dia.. he must be what? 20? 22? comel gilee... kekekkee... so hung out with him... he tried to act cool as normal beach boys would.. but he has like this amazing body! Ya Allah... thank you for this eye-candy named zamri.. or my trip to Dangli Island would probably be a bore.. kekeke.. then we jumped in. i was supposed to document fuad and his students.. i swear i saw fuad went down next to me.. i lost him and the anchor line! the vis was really bad.. i couldn't see anything. hahaha.. i went down anyways. it's not that deep.. then i saw someone.. i followed them... and suddenly they went up.. i followed suit.. then i realized it was not Fuad.. it's Mulu... then i saw Fuad on the boat. wakakakaka ... i've never lost a buddy like this before.. hahahahaha :p 

that's pretty much the only thing i saw underwater :(

then they told me to go dive nearer to the shore.. mm the vis was much better.. but there were sea urchins that are the size of my head.. and my head is huge! damn.. zam ( i wish it was zamri, but it was nizam) followed me.. he too was scared of those darn seaurchins. i think i probably had like 10 minutes there. we ascended.. and i told them i was heading back to the boat.. tak mau la kena sea urchins.. :p

Dangli Island

i hung out at the boat. that's when Fadzil added me in the ND BB Group.. i uploaded Fuad's photo and all hell broke lose. hehe :)

the wait was not long though.. the guys had to go back to AS that afternoon.. so we went back ashore.. to clean up. I didn't bring any change of clothes. so i just changed back to the dress i wore in the morning. Fuad was funny. he was rushing that morning. he forgot to bring a pair of pants.. kekekkeke... so he had to wear his towels back to Kuah .. wakakaka.. then the guys had to stop at Idaman Suri for chocolates and stuff.. i was laughing like a mad woman... 

from left: Nizam, Mulu, Tuan Lah, Me, Tuan Lan, Fuad.. notice the towel? kah kah kah

since i was not appropriately dressed i didn't go either.. isk.. :(

the guys left Langkawi at about 6:30 pm.. the last ferry. I had to stay another night as I dived that morning. i didn't know it's gonna be that shallow.. but tak kisah la. :p

bid the guys farewell...

that's a whole lot of baggage

these guys are funny lah.. hahaha thanks. i had fun :)

thanks .. thanks.. thanks.. for having me :)

i just slept that night.. tired.. dehydrated and burned. that sums it up :) which should explain why i didn't contact anyone at langkawi.. sorry yarp ;) i wanted to meet you up. but i was beat. 

i flew back to KL on Monday.. 12:30 pm ...